Each week, the LJ editors comb through the internet to find the best library-related news and tidbits. This week, a sleepover in a Wales library, hip-hop statuary in Queens, and protocol in a TV writers' room.

Civic unrest and natural disasters are not unique to the 21st century. But with the growth of rapid news cycles and citizen documentation through social media, careful documentation of these tragedies—in real time or close to it—is a responsibility that public and academic libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions are taking on more and more.

The Institute by Stephen King is getting adapted for TV. Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge is set for the movies. Starz is going to air Dublin Murders, based on the Tana French books. Apple TV gets into the adaptation business with Foundation, Dickinson, Lisey's Story, The Morning Show, Pachinko, and more.

At this year’s ALA Annual conference, Library Journal’s Barbara Hoffert moderated Penguin Random House Library Marketing’s Author Luncheon, where librarians were the first to hear an all-star lineup of authors discuss their upcoming books.

An intimate account of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland from the author of Columbine, a call to action for better college education on consent, and a diagnosis and plan of treatment to help first-year college students become better writers top the list of best-selling books on education, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Taking strategic advantage of an eclectic community mix to deliver innovative library service where it’s most needed helped the Copper Queen Library in Bisbee, AZ, win LJ’s 2019 Best Small Library in America, sponsored by Baker & Taylor.

Stephen King dominates adaptations with It: Chapter Two and Mr. Mercedes opening today and next week. Plus, news that Dr. Sleep is on its way to screens, too. Rita Dove wins the Wallace Stevens Award. Whoopi Goldberg's entertaining guide is getting buzz. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is writing a book.

Whitehall Public Library is one of the two finalists for LJ's Best Small Library in America. When social service agencies began to resettle refugees in Whitehall, in the Pittsburgh, PA, suburbs, the library started building bridges between refugees and long-term residents.

Many libraries have established formal or informal policies to ensure the accessibility of licensed and library-created digital content, but libraries also report uncertainty regarding the responsibilities for auditing and enforcing such policies, according to the “LYRASIS 2019 Accessibility Survey Report.”

The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood gets global coverage. Dorothea Benton Frank has died. Belletrist picks What Red Was by Rosie Price as its September book, while the Read with Jenna book for the month is The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall. Ursula Le Guin’s "Earthsea" series is set for TV and The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand is headed to FOX. Watchmen will debut on Oct. 20, on HBO.

The 2020 United States Census officially launches on April 1 of next year. Because it will be the first conducted primarily online, and the number of regional and area census offices has halved since 2010, libraries stand to play a major role in helping assure an equitable and accurate count. But even before households receive their invitation to participate next spring, there are many opportunities for libraries to get involved—and a strong need for them to do so.

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger leads holds this week. The Booker Prize shortlist is announced; Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Chigozie Obioma, and Elif Shafak make it through. The CWA Dagger Shortlists are out. LJ continues its Generational Reading Study, this time looking at the reading of Generation Z. "Harry Potter" is removed from a Nashville Catholic school.

I join those from the library community urging a reconsideration of Macmillan’s recent decision to limit libraries to one copy of new ebooks for the first two months of publication. This one size fits all embargo is, at best, an insensitive blockade. Libraries are key engines of book culture, and willing collaborators in the process of finding a path to access.

A new understanding of evolutionary biology, a history of the definitions of and responses to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and an investigation into the myriad causes of America's opioid crisis top the list of best-selling books on the history of science, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Earlier this year, Penguin Random House Library Marketing hosted their annual BookExpo Librarian Breakfast, where librarians were the first to hear five incredible authors discuss their upcoming books. For those who could couldn’t be there or who want to watch again, here are the powerful speeches from the authors.

While it has long been clear to library practitioners that public programming positively impacts their communities, there has been little existing research on the effects of such programs, or on how best to equip library staff. In response to this need, ALA has released the “National Impact of Library Public Programs Assessment [NILPPA]: Phase 1: A White Paper on the Dimensions of Library Programs and the Skills and Training for Library Program Professionals,” the first stage of a multiyear, multiphasic foundational study.

Each week, the LJ editors comb through the internet to find the best library-related news and tidbits. This week, a librarian shares lessons learned from working at all 28 branches of her public library system, the Internet Archive is tangled in lawsuits with Russia, and LitHub's spilling the tea.

Nicole Cooke wins the Illinois Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Award, Jason Griffey is the NISO Director of Strategic Initiatives, Jane Sánchez is named the Library of Congress's new Deputy Librarian for Library Collections and Services, and more new hires, promotions, retirements, and obituaries from the August 2019 issue of Library Journal.

Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, and Tor.com issue fall reading lists. There will be more. The Splatterpunk Awards are out. A new look at Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker is released, creating all kinds of buzz. Levar Burton Reads N.K. Jemisin.

A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny leads holds this week. Time magazine’s “World’s Greatest Places 2019” includes libraries. The Black Panther sequel will arrive in Summer 2022. The Great British Bake-Off returns on Aug. 30. The Mandalorian gets a trailer.

On August 14, staff members of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) voted 173–106 to form a union for more than 300 full- and part-time workers. Library staff, who organized as the United Library Workers Committee (ULW) in summer 2018, will now become part of Allegheny County–based United Steelworkers, and will negotiate a collected bargaining agreement with CLP management.

Washington State has made great strides in helping its citizens exercise their right to vote, but gaps in service and information remain. Public libraries have stepped in to ensure that all voters have access to the ballot box on Election Day.

Since its launch in 2015, Flame Con, the LGBTQ-themed comic convention created by nonprofit Geeks OUT, has had increasingly more to offer: a multitude of panels, several workshops, and an increasing number of vendors. Eager crowds from a variety of fandoms gathered on Saturday, August 17 and Sunday, August 18 for this year's event.

A controversial series and fascinating women lead adaptations this week. A bevy of booklists are out, including those addressing science, poetry, and music. Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is headed to the movies. Motherless Brooklyn gets a trailer.

Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey leads 14 books onto the bestseller lists this week. Nicholas Sparks wins his defamation case. The Ripped Bodice bookstore launches its next Great Big Romance Read. Early sketches from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery have been found.

Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, associate professor and associate librarian at Medford Library, University of South Carolina–Lancaster, is the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2019 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. Kendrick’s recent research into low morale quantifies the experiences of many academic librarians who are not getting the support that they need for success in this field.

Last month, the Panorama Project announced that Guy LeCharles Gonzalez would be taking over as Project Lead. The initiative aims to quantify the impact that libraries have on the publishing ecosystem—specifically the digital publishing ecosystem—and Gonzalez brings a new perspective to the project shaped by his 25 year career in the library and publishing fields.

Cynthia Landrum joined the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) as the new Deputy Director of Library Services in May. LJ caught up with her in July to find out more about the transition from public library to federal agency, and what IMLS’s work has looked like from both sides.

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter leads holds this week. Author Paule Marshall has died. The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal wins the Hugo Award. George R.R. Martin talks about how he feels free now that HBO's GOT is over. Several political books feature in forthcoming news.

After months of back-and-forth with state officials over Alaska’s FY20 operating budget, Gov. Mike Dunleavy relented on a plan to cut funds for the University of Alaska (UA) by 41 percent. Rather than a one-year, $135 million cut, the university will see state funding cut by $70 million over the next three years—$25 million this year and $45 across the following two.

The First Lady's record-breaking memoir, a deep dive into the prison-industrial complex, and an introduction to the historical roots of the alt-right in America top the list of best-selling books on politics and law, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Where'd You Go Bernadette? leads a handful of adaptations today and through next week. Robert Macfarlane wins the Wainwright Golden Beer book prize and The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wins one of the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards. The September LibraryReads list is out, topped by Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson.

The Inn by James Patterson with Candice Fox leads nine new bestsellers onto the lists. Barack Obama posts his summer reading list—and sends book sales soaring. The NYT Magazine publishes poems and stories by 16 notable authors that bring African American history to life.

Inland by Téa Obreht gets much better reviews. The shortist for the Not the Booker prize is out and there is other award news as well. A male critic has written about Sally Rooney's lips, starting a social media fire storm.

Following an investigation into Santa Cruz Public Libraries’ use of Gale Analytics on Demand, a California grand jury reported on June 24 that the use of data analytics tools by libraries “is a potential threat to patron privacy and trust.”

The role of public libraries in public health is large and expanding: from helping community members sign up for Affordable Healthcare Act insurance to hosting educational programming on physical, mental, and behavioral health issues to becoming a second home to public health nurses who can help more directly. In recent years, they have also served an additional public health role: as a cooling or warming center when their regions are struck with extreme and dangerous temperatures, something that’s happening more and more often as climate warming’s impacts accelerate.

Academic librarians struggle with how to meet their users’ need for print collections while coping with limited budgets and expanded demands on their physical space. While resource sharing has a long history in libraries, an approach that treats it as more than an afterthought has potential to reduce both unnecessary duplication and gaps in the collection. Technological advances can help make storage more efficient, faster delivery feasible, and management easier.

Louisiana State University (LSU) recently received $28 million, raised privately, for its football locker rooms. Ginger Gibson Burk, an LSU alum and political reporter in Washington, DC, was happy that the football team got a new locker room but “it was a reminder that the library is in a state of disrepair and needs to be addressed,” said Burk. She started a GoFundMe campaign on her phone on her way to work to raise money to fix and update LSU’s Middleton Library.

While many view natural disasters as levelers—events that do not differentiate based on ethnicity or economic status—this is not the case. Low-income citizens are often hit harder by extreme weather events, due to everything from poorly constructed or aging housing to housing located closer to flood plains.

Award-winning American author, editor, and professor Toni Morrison died after a brief illness on August 5, at the age of 88. Morrison was the author of a number of celebrated novels centering the experiences of African Americans—most often women—including The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), Paradise (1997), Love (2003), A Mercy (2008), Home (2012), and God Help the Child (2015).

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware leads holds this week. New booklists arrive for the week, for August, and for fall. NPR’s Summer Reader Poll features The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. Librarians and booksellers both suggest The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai and Ruth Ware's newest. N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy is getting adapted into a roleplaying game.

An American master comes to the screen today. Comics and series domintate the week in adapations. In dueling book club picks Jenna Bush Hager names Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn as her next choice while Reese Witherspoon selects The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda. Edward Snowden has written a memoir. The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter Tevis is headed back to the screen while Stephen King is writing new material for the new The Stand adaptation.

When it comes to spreading library love, the Library Land Project raises the bar. Greg Peverill-Conti and Adam Zand have visited over 200 public libraries—celebrating them, sharing images of them, writing stories about them, and rating them. It's something to learn from.

One Good Deed by David Baldacci leads seven new books onto the bestseller lists. More August booklists arrive. Slate reports on “The Dark History Behind Where the Crawdads Sing.” Authors who have been famous for some time get new attention.

The newly created Fund for the Boston Public Library has raised a total of $6.1 million to date in only a few weeks, since Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced its creation on May 29. Library Director David Leonard hopes that the Fund may raise as much as $10 million annually, in addition to the BPL’s annual budget of approximately $49 million.

August booklists get a one-day head start. Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is the next PBS NewsHour/NYT book club pick for August. Circe by Madeline Miller is headed to HBO. Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, and Leonardo DiCaprio join forces for the adaptation of David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon. The Walking Dead gets a trailer for its third, as yet to be named, series.

Winners and shortlists are out for romance, sf, fantasy, and other genre awards. Bill Gates, Ellen, and Good Morning America give three books a boost. Made for Love by Alissa Nutting is headed to HBO and both The Kitchen and Sanditon get new trailers.

Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes is voted The Tonight Show Summer Reads choice. The Millions selects “Ten Writers to Watch in 2019.” The Center for Fiction announces the Frist Novel Prize Longlist. The adaptation of Three Women by Lisa Taddeo is going to Showtime. The Goldfinch gets another trailer.

The New Girl by Daniel Silva leads eight new books onto the bestseller lists. In award news, the Ripped Bodice bookstore creates a romance novel award and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature announces its nominees. John Grisham’s The Confession is headed to the movies while the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is set for a series on Hulu.

When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries issued the final report on its Grand Challenges Summit in January, one of the key findings was the need for libraries and archives to play the role of advocates and collaborators on research into open, equitable, and sustainable knowledge systems. At the time, director Chris Bourg referred to a MIT Libraries–based research initiative in the works that would use the Grand Challenges Summit white paper’s call to action as a jumping-off point.

LinkedIn Learning, which acquired Lynda.com in 2015, recently announced that all users of the platform’s online training programs will be required to create or log into a LinkedIn account to access the content. The new terms of service would also apply to LyndaLibrary users who access the platform through library subscriptions.

Held on Friday, May 3, LJ’s Design Institute: Columbia, SC, was infused with Southern hospitality from start to finish. The host, Columbia’s Richland Library, went the extra mile—from holding over an art exhibit at the Main Library for those touring the branches on May 2 to bringing attendees out to the citywide First Thursday party on Main Street.

The Leander Public Library (LPL), TX, has drawn criticism for proposed changes to meeting room and speaker policies—instituted not by the library, but by city government of this suburb north of Austin. LPL has been run by private library administrators Library Systems and Services since it was established as a city department in 2005. In the wake of several recent instances of programming deemed “controversial” by city leadership, amendments to library policy have drawn the attention of residents, city council members, and library and civil rights associations.

The Booker Prize longlist is out, as is the British Fantasy Awards shortlist. More summer reading lists, and lists of all sorts, offer a range of reading, from debuts to urban fantasy. Scary Stories To Tell in The Dark and The Right Stuff get trailers.

Part one of LJ’s deep dive into generational reading behaviors shows that the millennial generation—often credited in the media with “killing” industries in which they don’t care to, or simply can’t afford to, partake—are known to be killing it as readers in the opposite sense: they’re enthusiastic book consumers, library users, and, perhaps surprisingly, print fans.

One Good Deed by David Baldacci tops holds this week. My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips win the top Eisner Award. Librarians and booksellers pick the same three books for the week. More best of the year lists appear, as do many new trailers for book/comic adaptations.

Under Currents by Nora Roberts tops eight new bestsellers this week. Rosewater by Tade Thompson wins the Arthur C. Clarke award. An essay by Langston Hughes not seen for decades gets republished. Gossip Girl gets a reboot.

This year’s ThrillerFest, the 14th annual meet-up of authors, aspiring writers, readers, agents, booksellers, and thriller fans, was held (as it has been since nearly the beginning…) at New York’s Grand Hyatt Hotel, July 9–13.

The Emmy nominations are out. Game of Thrones takes the crown. Colson Whitehead continues to get focused attention and praise. A variety of booklists suggest midsummer reading, from moon books to thrillers featuring children in peril.

The New Girl by Daniel Silva leads holds this week but The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead dominates book coverage. New summer booklists appear as The Guardian considers the evolution of the genre. Also, the paper looks at the science behind audiobooks. Paper Girls is headed to Amazon

Four bookish films/TV shows hit screens today and through next week. New booklists survey great audiobooks, action thrillers, and foodie titles. Libraries are told to destroy copies of Naomi Wolf’s Outrages.

The Obama Foundation selected the Columbia Center for Oral History Research, at New York’s Columbia University, to produce the official oral history of Barack Obama’s eight-year presidency. Working in collaboration with the University of Hawai’i’s Center for Oral History and the University of Chicago, the Columbia Center for Oral History will conduct the Obama Presidency Oral History Project over the next five years

The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir by Yrsa Daley-Ward wins the PEN Ackerley Prize. Lesley Nneka Arimah wins the Caine Prize for African Writing. Tor.com announces its top books of the year so far. George R.R. Martin says that the Starks, direwolves, and White Walkers will all be part of the new Game of Thrones spin-off series on HBO.

The eighth annual Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction ceremony and reception, held during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Washington, DC, at the Renaissance Hotel, celebrated winning authors Rebecca Makkai (The Great Believers, Viking) and Kiese Laymon (Heavy: An American Memoir, Scribner).

Vendors at this year’s American Library Association annual conference in Washington, DC launched new products, debuted significant updates, and announced winners of grants and awards. Here are a few items that LJ had an opportunity to learn about in person.

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo gets buzz. More booklists for July, the rest of the year, and on selected topics arrive. Cressida Cowell is the UK’s new children’s laureate. Maya Angelou gets an artistic honor.

Eric Klinenberg's love song to public libraries (and other community-building public spaces), a history of American capitalism penned by the former chair of the Federal Reserve, and a critically acclaimed deep dive into universal basic income make the list of top 20 best-selling titles on business and economics.

Under Currents by Nora Roberts leads holds this week. Backlash by Brad Thor tops the bestsellers lists. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman and Three Women by Lisa Taddeo are the top books librarians and booksellers suggest for the week (and are the picks for best of the month as well.) MAD magazine will cease publishing new content. Mulan gets a trailer.

The Walking Dead comic is ending today. The Locus Awards are announced. As is the winner of John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel. Lock Every Doorby Riley Sager is headed to TV. An adaptaiton of Chris Van Allsburg’s The Mysteries Of Harris Burdick is in the works. The Flash might be headed to the movies, in a film created by the director of It.

Comics have long been a part of the fabric of the library, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that they really started booming, said Robin Brenner, teen librarian, Brookline, P.L., MA, addressing a rapt audience at the very first “Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) President’s Program—State of the Comics Union: Past, Present, Future,” held June 23 at the ALA Annual conference in Washington, DC.

In the 1970s, the celebrated cartoonist and tireless comics advocate Will Eisner (1917–2005) stood before the Library of Congress and asked that comics be shelved in the library, believing its acceptance of the medium would lead libraries across America to follow suit. Some 20 years later, in 1997, DC Comics became the first comics publisher to exhibit at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual conference.